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Rapidly progressive respiratory failure with multiple halo signs on computed tomography in a patient with primary cardiac angiosarcoma derived from the right atrium: a case report.

Masaoki SaitoTakeshi SarayaMiku OdaToshinori MinamishimaKen KongojiAya IsomuraMasachika FujiwaraKyoko SoejimaHaruyuki Ishii
Published in: BMC pulmonary medicine (2020)
This case clearly demonstrated that primary cardiac angiosarcoma could expand in the right atrial cavity, which led to a decreased cardiac output resulting in repeated syncope, together with the fragility of lung tissue by tumor invasion, thereby generating a halo sign on thoracic CT.
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